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Paged as 1-360 followed by sixty unpaged leaves (i.e. 120 pages) which collates as thirty issues for first half of 1841 - Part I, No. 1 January 6, 1941 to Part 1, No. 30 June 1841. "Notes on the United States of North America, During a Phrenological Visit in 1838-9-40" [Combe's Notes on the United States"] by George Combe on pages 217-359. Hardcover: H 29.25cm x L 23.25cm. Contemporary half-leather - red leather spine and marbled paper boards with red leather corners. Spine ends scuffed; spine's gilt stamping remains fairly bright; boards toned/rubbed with worn edges. Missing preliminary and terminal blank leaves (no free endpapers nor flyleaves). Front pastedown is immediately opposite page 1 which has "Waldie's Library" - "Memoirs of the Court of England During the Reign of the Stuarts, Including the Protectorate" by John Heneage Jesse. Last page of No. 30 issue is immediately opposite rear pastedown. Binding is firm.